Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach

9:00 am

Mr. Martin Fraser:

I am sorry, Chairman. I do want to respond to the substance of what Deputy Murphy said but first I wish to comment on spending. Commissions of investigation are clearly quicker and cheaper than tribunals. It is self-evident from the things I have to pay for. We have one commission, which is a little bit more like a tribunal, and I predict that it will cost-----